skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For most users, including many developers, SteamOS absolutely can be general purpose.

There are two main "daily driver" usability issues on SteamOS by default if you need to do technical work:

- Limited software availability via the flatpak repositories.

- Not being able to install certain programs as easily without needing containerisation of some kind (if that even solves the problem in some cases).

Distrobox solves a good amount of both issues on SteamOS, for coding work at least. Slap a virtual Ubuntu on and you're off to the races.
I'm pretty sure the only reason people ever used parser generators is that it allows a language that vaguely resembles the formal description of the target language. I always found them very confusing to write, confusing to debug, and much less efficient than writing your own. It's actually pretty straightforward once you get the tokenization and lookahead working.
They limit only cluster size with 50 cores and 20T disk size. Link to details https://www.scylladb.com/source-available-faq/
OK, this surprised me:

uv run --with 'numpy<2.0' --with mlx-vlm python \
-m mlx_vlm.generate \
--model mlx-community/QVQ-72B-Preview-4bit \
--max-tokens 10000 \
--temp 0.0 \
--prompt "describe this" \
--image Tank_Man_\(Tiananmen_Square_protester\).jpg

Here's the output: https://gist.github.com/simonw/e04e4fdade0c380ec5dd1e90fb5f3...

It included this bit:

> I remember seeing this image before; it's famous for capturing a moment of civil resistance. The person standing alone against the tanks symbolizes courage and defiance in the face of overwhelming power. It's a powerful visual statement about the human spirit and the desire for freedom or protest.
Would love to hear about folks favorite docks.

I have a fancy pluggable dock and after my Mac goes to sleep it sometimes stops working when the Mac wakes up. Often, it appears to go into a loop where it detects an external monitor for 5 seconds then disconnects. Pretty annoying and guess away after a reboot.
I think the difference between 90% and 95% is huge.
As a coder, if the LLM is wrong 10% of the time that's pretty bad, I can't really trust it. If it's wrong 5% of the time, still not great but much better - I'd pay much more for that kind of reliability improvement.
My favorite memory as a kid was waking up in the middle of the night and seeing a large object covered in the living room, and thinking it was elves and I had to tip toe back to bed because my parents said they'd run off if they saw me. It was a Go-Kart, wrapped in a bed sheet. Great gift.

My favorite memory as an adult was filling the kid's stocking with nothing but bananas one year. She was 6. At first she was pretend excited because she likes bananas, but by the end she was digging, pulling them out one by one and saying 'aw man another banana' each time. She then asked us why Santa brought her so many bananas, and I had to pretend not to know through my tears of laughter.

She gets great gifts, just having a bit of fun. We put a banana on top of her stocking each year since, but she's old enough now to roll her eyes and sigh.
Policy-installed extensions can continue to use the WebRequest blocking APIs on Manifest V3 [1], so I would expect that the underlying code for the API would remain available for forks to use.

[1] https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/reference/api/w...
the raw data appears to agree that Louisiana is surging in cases. What is the issue? Just that they have assigned a cause when it may actually just be correlation?
Who are the Magi – Myth and History [video]
Yesterday at the Christmas Vespers in Germany. A full church. The Christmas story is being told—about Jesus, about the Romans, about the darkness in the stable, and how the Christ child is born in Bethlehem. But no word about an ongoing Genocide in Palestine (the Pope says it‘s a genocide, all human rights orgs say it’s genocide). About Israel bombing Palestinians into pieces. Sick world.
I “deal” with Toyota, Stellantis, GM, Ford, etc.

I am not a mechanic. I’m an EE. My company does work for a lot of mfgs.
Unfortunately Firefox is slower than chromium and the devtools are worse. I used Firefox for years because I hate google. I eventually gave up, that’s how bad ff is.
Sorry this is mostly way over my head, but perhaps you can explain something to me that puzzled me when I looked at go 50 odd years ago now.

(Please note, I absolutely do understand life requires two eyes, and why that is so, but my knowledge doesn't extend much further than that).

So hypothetically, if we get to the point where play normally stops, why can't I put a stone into my opponent's territory? I am reducing his territory by 1 point. So he will presumably object and take my "dead" stone off, first restoring the balance and then penalising me one point by putting the newly captured stone in my territory. But can't I insist that he actually surrounds the stone before he takes it off? That would take four turns (I would pass each time) costing him 4 points to gain 1. There must be a rule to stop this, but is it easily formally expressed? Or is it a) Complicated or b) Require some handwaving ?
Ruby is getting more and more awesome these last few years, especially when it comes to performance. Since 3.3 I've been running all my apps with --yjit, it makes a tremendous difference!
Idea. Wasm packaging and then running FixBrowser embedded in a webapp. Then use any browser with that webview providing safe whitelisted browsing.
LLMs are not AGIs. LLMs can only ever tell you how to build a device to enrich uranium for few hundred thousand dollars if this information was already public knowledge and LLM was trained on it. Situation is the same with building biolab tech for few hundred thousand dollars. Also if there was an actor who have few millions already they wouldn't have any problem to get their hands on any LLM or scientist who able to build it for them.

The only "danger" LLM "safety" can prevent is generation of racist porn stories.
Mozilla can't be worse than google (or brave/opera etc)
macOS hides its immutability pretty well, with fine grained image immutability and keeping the behavior mostly unchanged.

Immutable Linux distros, esp. NixOS pull all kinds of shenanigans (ELF patching to begin with) to achieve what they want to achieve with a complete disregard how they change the behavior and structure of the system. What you get is something which resembles a Linux distro, but with monkey patches everywhere and a thousand paper cuts.

When a Linux distro can become transparently immutable, then we can talk about end user adoption en masse. Other than that, immutable distros are just glorified containers for the cloud and enthusiast applications, from my perspective.
That page doesn't make a very compelling argument. Yes, bullying and harassment without an anonymous identity is potentially more damaging. But nowhere does it seem to consider that many of the bullies and harassers would only dare do so with an anonymous identity.

Which has the better culture? 4chan, or professional settings and churches? Non-anonymous settings almost universally have better culture because people's behavior has an impact on their social standing in their community.
I don't really disagree with anything you said, but having to run end to end tests for any benchmarking is far from ideal. For one thing, they are often slow,and to get reliable results, you have to run them multiple times, which makes it even slower. And that makes it more difficult, and expensive, to try a lot of things and iterate, and have a short feedback loop. IME writing good end to end tests is also just generally more difficult than writing unit tests of smaller benchmarking code.
Bypass ChromeOS alltogether. Use a different Linux distro.
How about anti censorship details about VPNs, details of the GFW etc?
This looks REALLY good on a 240hz monitor. Much better than BFI (which I don't use because it's pretty bad on my monitor)
Garbage is Garbage, in whichever guise it may come from.

The article/video is full of inflammatory language and is the very definition of "hate speech".

Please stop posting such things here.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42507476
Cici n'est pas un arbre de Noël tabarnak
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/noam-chomsky-not-dead-1.723937...

Damn. I got fake newsd. It was probably a close call.

My commiseration email must have looked so silly.
Merry Christmas! Just remembering playing with our new Commodore 64, Christmas Day 1982. Good memories.
‘it’ is a welcome addition!
Thanks for clarifying.

IMHO history and the fall of Rome in particular seem among the most valuable topics today!
Tried on my simple 60Hz PC screen and also on my phone with OLED screen and sadly, it's just a flickering image. Will try later this week on my friends' retrogaming setup. Looks promising
Merry Christmas! Mutlu Noeller! Frohe Weihnachten!

I was born in Istanbul, a sprawling, chaotic city that's a fascinating blend of thousands of cultures. Christmas was always a thing there, even under an Islamist regime. As a non-believer, I never cared much for religious holidays, but I did enjoy the cozy decorations and sipping Glühwein (mulled wine). Beyond that, it didn't mean much to me.

Now I live in Germany. My first Christmas here, back in 2009, was quite different. I was alone in a rented room provided by my employer, watching TV shows I couldn't understand on a tiny screen, just trying to pass the time. My laptop wasn't working (the charging cable was broken), and I was bored out of my mind.

Around 6 PM, there was a knock on the door. It was my employer, heading to a hippie-style gathering in the forest to celebrate Christmas. He figured I might be alone and decided to come in person since I hadn't answered my phone.

Of course, I said yes, and it turned out to be one of the most heartwarming experiences of my life. The group was incredibly kind, and even though I was the only foreigner, they went out of their way to make me feel included (switching to English when talking to each other, for example). The setting was magical: small fires inside carved logs, nature-themed decorations, and delicious food I'd never tasted before. I was so happy.

That day, my love for Germany grew a hundredfold.
To you too!
Not true for jail; only probable cause or reasonable suspicion is required to lock someone up awaiting a court date. Which, of course, can easily ruin someone's life (missing work, deepening debts, the accusation itself can damage reputation). In this case the accused was awarded damages, but that's not usually how this plays out. It's a huge structural problem with our justice system that spits in the face of "innocent until proven guilty." Any attempt to change it though is met with backlash about not being sufficiently tough on crime, and letting dangerous criminals walking the streets, preventing our law enforcement from doijg their jobs, etc.
What's the point of these AI replies?
How do you define “better culture”?

I wouldn’t say you can compare churches and 4chan - one is an online activity with millions of people around the world joining; the other is a highly intimate affair conducted in a small community.
Using LSP and clangd in Vim (2018)
... this may have been a mistake on my part. A similar prompt running locally worked just fine: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42507454
> Long term support. Regular distros like Debian and AlmaLinux offer free 5 and 10 year support cycles which means maintenance can be done every 1 or 2 years.

What's maintenance in the context if immutable distros? Running "ujust upgrade"? That's done automatically in the background for my Aurora installation.

Also, they're working on CentOS based LTS versions of Bluefin: https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/call-for-testing-bl...
The Redhat model just doesn’t work in 2024 with the sharks constantly looking for fresh meat.

I truly believe that the Red Hat model is still possible to achieve today, but the barrier of entry is much higher than before. What sets Red Hat apart from many of these VC backed projects is what they actually offer. Red Hat doesn't primarily provide "services" or singular components like a database^, but delivers platforms.

RHEL, OpenShift, Ansible Automation Platform, OpenStack, Satellite, etc, are the aggregation of many open source projects tied together to make an offering appealing and attractive to enterprises. They produce the infrastructure and management layers of the stack that all your services and applications are deployed on. Working at this level enables a very different degree of flexibility and "safety" in comparison to single application or SaaS style offerings.

There's distinct boundaries of their products as well from the upstream variants: Fedora vs CentOS vs RHEL, OKD/SCOS vs OCP/RHCOS, RDO vs RHOSO, Ansible ecosystem vs AAP, etc. Red Hat also delivers on support, training/education, partner-driven sales, and OEM integration/certification.

^ Main exception would really be the Java middleware solutions, but the Runtimes and Integration offerings could be argued as a platform of their own. Same with RHEL/OpenShift AI.
Yeah but the first two generations of pi shipped with full size HDMI on the same footprint.
Egypt doesn't have an equivalent to the NTSB. There simply isn't enough depth. They established their own agency in 2002, but it is basically a placeholder.
Source available doesn't allow you to build on that software or patch it the way you see fit.

Heck, even some source available licenses doesn't allow you to compile that thing, let alone get parts and use it elsewhere.

However, I somewhat like source available licenses currently, because they're neat little mines that sneak in to training sets of generative AI models and make the models less suitable for serious work.
of course they do, especially in the communities mentioned in the original article, where they employ a substantial amount of the low skilled labor. You can't look at their employee count in the context of the USA, employment, especially low skilled employment, is very local and sticky.
This is cool, when I clicked on the link https://iss-mimic.github.io/Mimic/ I was amazed to see a lot more data in the public domain.
The last christmas I was able to spend with my dad's side of the family. My nieces and nephews gathered around the tree - absolutely spoiled rotten by their parents and their second cousin who had a tech salary and no responsibilities. Their faces when they were able to open the gifts of the sort I wish I could have had -- a robotics kit, a goo-making set, a diamond painting, a nintendo switch game. Being able to give them cool things that I hope they continued to enjoy for months to come. The feeling of sitting around a bonfire made of present-trash, beer in hand, talking about nothing. It's how I feel Christmas should be.
Show HN: Melior, The rustic MLIR bindings in Rust
I think openSuse also calls their rpm+btrfs snapshots solution immutable, but afaik it doesn't use containers.
Mozilla let's me use ublock origin, Google doesn't.
I don't think that page is using the word "errata" correctly. I think it's supposed to be a list of errors, but it doesn't seem to list any errors.
The definition of "conscious" is kind of the whole question, but I could probably believe that as easily as the idea that every brain of sufficient complexity gets a single unit of conscious soul that inhabits it. I really don't know how it works.
That resulted in a loud chuckle. My mind was perfectly prepared to not expect a punch line, and it smacked me over the head. Thanks for the Christmas gift of laughter.
Over my life, I have made plenty of friends both at work and outside of work — but NONE of them had no interests outside of work.

That's not to say that I've never had coworkers whose only interest was work. I just didn't become friends with them, because what is there to talk about? I greeted them and made basic small talk with them while we worked together, but that's not friendship.

And that's not to say that my friends' interests have nothing to do with the work they do. But their interests in those areas go above and beyond what they are paid to do.
He was never facing death row; there was no trial for that to be a possibility. The unnecessary speculation of death row has no barring on this story.

There are real cases that have made it to trial where your argument is better suited. He was in jail for a month, but not prison (there is a difference here) and nowhere near death row. I didn't see where the reason was, my guess is he could not afford bail (a separate problem altogether from this story). Prosecutors had reason to believe it was him; not only from an eye witness but because he had a record and had motive.

>> "..Martha Puebla, who had recently testified at a preliminary hearing about a gang murder in which Juan’s brother Mario was charged as an accessory. (Mario was convicted and is currently serving time.) Authorities argued that Juan — who had been in the courtroom during the hearing — had killed Puebla in retaliation for cooperating with police."

The NYPost article hints all the drama over this case is for a Netflix documentary:

>> "As covered in the Netflix documentary “Long Shot,” out Friday, Juan’s innocence would ultimately rest on a near brush with fame — more specifically, with Larry David and “Curb Your Enthusiasm.”

If not for the involvement of Curb Your Enthusiasm and a documentary, this would simply be another case that got dismissed from an alibi checking out and never making so much as a local community newsletter. Thus, the title is dramatic as it does not accurately summarize the truth of the story.
Winter terminal (mostly Vim) cleaning (2019)
Volunteer. Find an organization that has a good mix of cause you believe in and an activity you enjoy spending your time on. For me, I built emergency housing for people in extreme poverty, I met other amazing volunteers and we'd hang out often outside the social work.
Show HN: Stak Scheme, The miniature, embeddable R7RS Scheme interpreter in Rust
Been running Kinoite for a good bit (~1 year). I'm a bit over it. Love the idea of immutability, but rebooting every time I get a new system image via rpm-ostree, which is often, is tiresome. Of course, I could update less frequently; alas, habits formed from years of using rolling releases.

I switched to EndeavourOS. Between flatpak and brew and mise, I have relatively well sandboxed applications. This gives me most of the benefits of the immutable OSes, although nowhere near as rigorous, obviously. For a technologist, though, it's fine.
I honestly don't understand your point and do understand his, and definitely don't understand why you took it so aggressively.

All he's saying is it's boring to win all the time.
FYI: discussion [1] of this attack from late 2022, notably including lengthy discussion from the developer (hexahedron / lightvector) of KataGo, probably the most widely used super-human Go AI.

Link is mid-thread, because the earlier version of the paper was less interesting than the revision later on.

[1] https://forums.online-go.com/t/potential-rank-inflation-on-o...
> But why now, and not like 5 years ago?

It’s a product of the rise in white nationalist/supremacist movements and white replacement theory. Pro-natalism with the explicitly racial content omitted (though even their often tied to overt appeals to eugenics and/or framing it as intra-societal/cultural competition, which is itself only a shade different from racial/ethnic competition, but for some reason doesn’t produce nearly as strong a negative reaction) is a face that can be shown to audiences that aren’t ready for the full-strength message.

I’m not saying every vocal pro-natalist is a white supremacist (most of the high profile ones are, though), but that the rise in white supremacy and the prominence of white replacement theory within the rising white supremacy is a big part of the explanation of why pro-natalism is a lot more prominent right now than in the recent past.
I think everything could be summed up even better to just say that the goal should be to increase productivity.
I mean they had laptops; just

for (unsigned char i = 0; i < 127; i++) {
printf("%x: %c\n", i, i);
}
It's not too late! I recommend that you reach out to him on Twitter or Facebook. If he really could secure that interview, I am sure he could release a follow-up video, or update his original video to add a final chapter.
This project, the approach contained within, the wording, license, the programming language used, the lack of a publicly accessible repository all have, in my opinion, a highly opinionated, “artisanal” approach (the reasoning behind which I’m not entirely able to comprehend) that seem to scratch the authors itch, but otherwise disregard the state of the web and what basic expectations other users have.

Regardless, good luck to the project. Would be interesting to see the end result.

To the author - there are certain social (and developer) expectations I would suggest you look into, e.g information about you (considering you are asking for donations; who am I donating to?) and a public repository people contribute code to. King of my own castle approach won’t really work here.
>They had debates about how often it was reasonable to force a servant or a convict to eat lobster.

Did people eat shrimp or clams or other shellfish at that time? What was so different about lobster? Personally I'm not a huge fan of it, partly because of the taste (it's ok, but not something I'd seek out, though I do like it in a bisque soup), and even moreso because it's just a big PITA to eat unless someone shells it for me, but I'm a huge fan of shrimp, the bigger the better. Unless a culture just doesn't like shellfish at all, I don't really understand why they would think of serving lobster to prisoners as some kind of awful punishment. I'd much rather eat lobster than overcooked or poorly cooked steak, for instance.
How does getting rid of the death penalty address the parent’s concern about false imprisonment? I understand the philosophical and practical arguments against the death penalty, but getting rid of it won’t forestall zealous prosecutors.
I made a mess of a jj repo recently. A big mess. Ran `jj op log`, found the operation I wanted, and just `jj restore`d my way back to that exact prior state. Then started what I was planning afresh and got it right. Felt magical.

And I didn't have to learn anything like the hell of git refs. The UI is self-explanatory as long as you know the feature exists.

Another very nice thing is that conflicts aren't roadblocks. They're legit changes, first-class jj citizens. So, when I do something that ends in a conflict, I can just move over to a different change, do the work I'm already trying to do, and then go back and resolve the conflict when I want.
Or `man ascii`
Am I wrong in thinking you can still compile Scylla after the change as it's source available? You just also need a license, right?
He was not "almost put to death row". There was no trial for that to even be a possibility. Instead, a man without truthful evidence against him had the charges dismissed.
It was peak music too. I really don't think things have got much better since 1999. If you watch/listen to something even from 1997 it seems dated. But 99? Could have been made yesterday.
They intentionally waited til after the AWS reInvent conference to announce this.
Did I misunderstand what is going on, or is this basically just saying "move the camera around to see behind the object"?

Edit: s/camera/sensor/ if that clarifies
Please explain; the fact that a single eyewitness is unreliable (and I agree that they are,) does not mean that the consideration of a jury of one’s peers would be.
Yeah, it feels deeply troubling to see this contrast. I wonder who the romans are today... The oppression affects all palestinians (not just muslims but also christians). Anyone staying silent about this suffering should feel ashamed.